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Creative use for empty whiskey bottles

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that's-a-mod dept.

Japala writes "You might have seen computers built inside of toasters, radios, garden lamps etc. As motherboards keep getting smaller and smaller the possibilites on where you can embed then increases. As it turns out, you can get them to fit inside an empty glass bottle. Whisky PC for a whiskey lover that needs a small and silent server."

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  1. Good TImes by SteelFist · · Score: 5, Funny

    So basically you get to drink a bottle of whiskey before building your computer. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone else?

    1. Re:Good TImes by FidelCatsro · · Score: 5, Funny

      A tower case filled with 24 year old single Isla Malt sounds like a nice companion project

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    2. Re:Good TImes by iezhy · · Score: 5, Funny

      if I would have made home server for every bottle of wiskey i drank... i would be running pretty powerfull boewulf cluster by now :)

    3. Re:Good TImes by iphayd · · Score: 5, Funny

      So, you work for Gateway, eh?

  2. Cheat! by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought they were going to try and rollup the motherboard and unfurl the memorysticks and processor once inside.

    Instead they just cut a hole in it.

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  3. portable, and tastes nice too... by joe+155 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    well, it is certainly more portable and better looking than your average tower. I think that there could well be a market for these things, in all different types of bottles or shaped glass cases... If you wanted to go all out you could put a plasma screan on the side... set it to show the original label as a screan saver if you want to go all out...

    I wonder if it's kept its nice wiskey smell...

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  4. for what? by Quixote · · Score: 5, Funny
    for a whiskey lover that needs a small and silent server.

    Because, as we all know, a noisy server can exacerbate a throbbing hangover ...

  5. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A chip in a bottle!

  6. A whisky server... by ToteAdler · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would that make it a bar tender?

  7. PC in a bottle by ikejam · · Score: 5, Funny

    aah, now i know why windows is acting drunk..

  8. Re:Try one of these by oculuses · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're that worried about dropping your computer hard enough to break the glass, then perhaps you should lay off the wiskey. :)

  9. Right... by no_barcode · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I tried to cut and drill couple of similar bottles at home but I realized that my tools are not good enough for it, then finaly a professional glass grinder man prepared the whisky bottle for me."

    Right. Your inability to cut holes in the bottle couldn't possibly have had anything to do with your method of emptying the bottle, could it?

  10. Next Project... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...PDA in a hip flask.

  11. If anyone cares... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    In places where a formal title is needed, it's usually "Master Glassblower", although there may be the occasional Journeyman working along side where there's enough demand for more than one. If you poke around larger research institutions, there's usually one hiding out somewhere, who handles all of the custom glass blowing, cutting, polishing, optical gluing (EG, for custom laser prisms), and shaping needs. In larger cities, check under "glassblowers" in the Yellow Pages.

    In practice, "great wizard" is far more commonly used than any formal title, because if you can't buy the right shape piece of glass off-the-shelf, then you need to find someone to grovel before. I know of at least one research project that was derailed for almost three years when the previous master retired "unexpectedly" at the ripe age of 80, and his 35-year old Journeyman assistant who got promoted didn't have half a century of expertise under his belt. Requests that the old guy used to craft flawlessly in one day, the new guy sometimes needed four to get what they wanted exactly right... or worse, almost but not quite exactly right.

    Which just goes to show, loss of critical personnel isn't only a problem in IT.